Fidel Castro’s Daughter Has Very Interesting Answer When Asked If Justin Trudeau Is Her Half Brother

The exiled daughter of the late communist revolutionary and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro fanned the flames of theories involving her father’s relationship to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

During an interview with NewsNation host Katie Pavlich on Tuesday, Alina Fernández — one of Castro’s 11 known children — was asked about rumors that Castro had another child, who grew up in one of Canada’s most powerful political families.

“For years, we’ve heard rumors that Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, could be your half-brother. What do you think of that?” Pavlich asked.

“The only thing I can say is that his mother used to visit the country very often,” Fernández replied.

Pavlich said the answer seemed like a “tell” and asked whether Fernández would call Trudeau to “maybe find out.”

“No, no. I won’t do it,” she said. “If he wants [to], he’s going to be welcome, but I won’t. I think he keeps that to himself, and you have to respect that.”

The Canadian government has sought to put the Castro-Trudeau rumor to rest for years, but the claim continues to resurface.

Many people have linked Trudeau to Castro because of similarities in their facial features, and because Trudeau’s parents traveled to Cuba in the 1970s. Trudeau’s parents, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau, had one documented trip to the island country in 1976, five years after Trudeau was born. Pierre Trudeau also struck up a friendship with the communist leader.

The Canadian government has denied claims that Trudeau is the love child of the Cuban dictator, stating that Margaret’s first and only trip to Cuba occurred during a highly publicized affair in 1976, five years after Trudeau’s birth. The Cuban government has never claimed that Castro had a child with Margaret Trudeau.

It’s widely speculated that Castro had far more children than the 11 kids known to the public. Of Castro’s 11 known children, at least five were conceived during his relationship with a secret partner. Two of his other children were born out of wedlock with two different women, and Fernández was born from an extramarital affair that Castro had with Cuban socialite Natalia Revuelta Clews.

Fernández, who became an anti-communist activist, fled Cuba in 1993 and was granted asylum in the United States.